Monday, December 1, 2008

Thankgiving Vacation

We just got back yesterday from our annual trip to Sunriver with Todd's family. I believe this was the 23rd year of the tradition. We were sorry to not be able to bring home the spoons trophy this year. But, the trophy must have been getting bored at our house and will get to experience life at the Wubbena's for a year. Tonia took home the trophy after a hard loss for her Oregon State Beavers earlier in the day. We stayed in a very nice house, which had room for all 11 of us. There was lots of good food to be had all weekend and lots of fun things to do. Although, we really missed the snow to play in. We spent a lot of time biking around the paved trails and enjoying views of the Deschutes river. We got a little bit of Christmas shopping done at the local mall. Todd, hiked up part of Mt. Bachelor with Jeff and Heidi and skied down a ways before it got too rocky. The rest of the crew played in the wee bit of snow that was on the ground.

We also spent time at the local athletic club enjoying their pool and the Florider (indoor surf wave). I got the hang of it a little more this year. So, we all had a nice weekend and Meadow really loved spending time with the boys and would squeal when they would come downstairs in the morning. She wanted to go in their room every morning and wake them up. too cute. I think she is definitely getting ready for a sibling. I guess we will need to work on that in the near future.

Meadow getting excited to leave for Sunriver
Playing hide and seek

The Wubbena's playing Rockband
The boys were really interested in what was inside the turkey. It was pretty cute to watch Ghanny pull out all the innards from the turkey.

Meadow and the boys used these blocks all weekend to build different things. She got really good at building towers.

Hope enjoying her toys in the exercauser




Meadow and Xavier in the Charriot. Meadow took a couple of her naps while riding along with us on our bike rides.



The civil war game (U of O vs OSU) was on Saturday. Meadow cheered on the ducks for a big win. For those who don't know. Todd went to U of O and Tonia went to OSU.


The rivalry begins
It was really exhausting cheering for the Beavers.

This year, Xavier and Parker played in the annual spoons championship. Both the boys hung in there for a while. But, spoons is a ruthless game and poor Xavier got out pretty early in the game.


I made it to the final five, but my husband was a tough competitor across the table.

Stockton playing charades for us during intermission

The Final Three

Final Two
Todd hands over the trophy


Hope hanging out with Dad
Todd surfing

Xavier did an awesome job on the boogie board. It was really amazing watching such a fearless 4 year old.


Me, attempting to surf.
In the kiddie pool with Meadow

1 comment:

Dave Dyk said...

That looks like so much fun! I wish our Thanksgiving was half as exciting as yours. :)